[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1158},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-widget":3,"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-widget-related":315},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":299,"date":300,"description":301,"draft":302,"extension":303,"meta":304,"navigation":302,"path":305,"related":306,"seo":311,"stem":312,"term":313,"updated":300,"__hash__":314},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-widget.md","What Is a Trading Widget? Live Embeds Explained",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":290},"minimark",[9,13,18,21,88,95,141,152,156,169,177,181,197,218,222,243,246,250,283],[10,11,12],"p",{},"A trading widget is an embeddable view of a live trading account that renders inside somebody else's page. The visitor's browser requests the data from ShowMyTrades as the page loads, down the same path the public account page uses, so no copy of the numbers sits in the middle waiting to be edited.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"how-it-works","How it works",[10,19,20],{},"Three formats travel differently, and the difference decides what the reader is actually looking at.",[22,23,24,40],"table",{},[25,26,27],"thead",{},[28,29,30,34,37],"tr",{},[31,32,33],"th",{},"Format",[31,35,36],{},"What it is",[31,38,39],{},"How it updates",[41,42,43,58,75],"tbody",{},[28,44,45,52,55],{},[46,47,48],"td",{},[49,50,51],"strong",{},"Interactive iframe",[46,53,54],{},"The widget page rendered inside a frame on your site",[46,56,57],{},"Refetched on every page load",[28,59,60,65,72],{},[46,61,62],{},[49,63,64],{},"Dynamic Image",[46,66,67,68],{},"A PNG or SVG served through ",[69,70,71],"code",{},"\u002Fapi\u002Fwidget-image\u002F…",[46,73,74],{},"Rebuilt on the backend after each data sync; browsers cache it 15 minutes",[28,76,77,82,85],{},[46,78,79],{},[49,80,81],{},"Static Image",[46,83,84],{},"A file you download once",[46,86,87],{},"Never",[10,89,90,91,94],{},"Only the iframe is a live embed. It offers ",[49,92,93],{},"seven types",": Stats Card (400×212), Stats Inline (750×80), Equity Curve, Monthly Returns, Currency Pair Stats, Trade History Table and Complete Dashboard. The two Stats types read balance, equity, gain and drawdown straight from stored account metadata, which is why they load fast and keep a fixed height.",[10,96,97,98,101,102,105,106,105,109,105,112,105,115,105,118,105,121,105,124,105,127,105,130,133,134,137,138,140],{},"The Dynamic Image path is not interactive, but nor is it frozen: the endpoint proxies a file the backend rebuilds whenever the account syncs new data. ",[49,99,100],{},"Eleven types"," exist — ",[69,103,104],{},"stats",", ",[69,107,108],{},"stats-inline",[69,110,111],{},"growth-daily",[69,113,114],{},"growth-trade",[69,116,117],{},"balance",[69,119,120],{},"profit",[69,122,123],{},"drawdown",[69,125,126],{},"growth-mini",[69,128,129],{},"summary",[69,131,132],{},"monthly"," and ",[69,135,136],{},"currency-pair"," — each in light, dark or transparent, as PNG or SVG, with ",[69,139,114],{}," forced to PNG. The Static Image is the only genuinely frozen option: it is the moment you clicked download, and it stays that moment forever.",[10,142,143,144,147,148,151],{},"Every variable-height widget — all but the two Stats types — ships with a few lines of JavaScript that measure the rendered height and post it to the parent page. Widget pages are served with ",[69,145,146],{},"frame-ancestors *"," and open CORS so any domain can host them, marked ",[69,149,150],{},"noindex"," so they never compete with your own account page, and rate-limited to 50 requests per second and 300 per minute per IP.",[14,153,155],{"id":154},"why-it-matters","Why it matters",[10,157,158,159,164,165,168],{},"Because a screenshot is a picture of numbers, and ",[160,161,163],"a",{"href":162},"\u002Fguides\u002Fspotting-fake-ea-results","anyone can make a picture of numbers",". An embed is a request to the source, made by the reader's own browser, with a footer linking back to ",[69,166,167],{},"\u002Faccount\u002F{your-slug}"," — six of the seven interactive widgets carry a \"Verified by ShowMyTrades.com\" link, and Stats Inline shrinks it to a bare arrow glyph because it has 80 pixels to work with. The widget shows the flattering part; the link exposes the drawdown, the red months and the costs.",[10,170,171,172,176],{},"Renaming does not break the embed: ",[160,173,175],{"href":174},"\u002Fguides\u002Fpublic-profile-and-custom-slugs","retired slugs"," are resolved by both the iframe endpoint and the image proxy before either gives up. Slugs change at most once every 30 days, with a one-hour correction window.",[14,178,180],{"id":179},"what-the-data-shows","What the data shows",[10,182,183,184,187,188,196],{},"Public account pages on ShowMyTrades have been visited ",[49,185,186],{},"94,710 times"," (August 2026). That is the traffic an embed buys: readers who saw a claim elsewhere and came to check what it omitted. The scepticism is warranted — of the published accounts with history, ",[49,189,190,191,195],{},"38.2% have been ",[160,192,194],{"href":193},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-maximum-drawdown","more than 20% underwater"," and 17.6% more than 50%",".",[10,198,199,200,133,207,210,211,133,214,217],{},"The click is worth more when there is something to find. Out of 10,000+ published pages, only ",[49,201,202,203],{},"65 carry a ",[160,204,206],{"href":205},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record","verified track record",[49,208,209],{},"264 verified trading privileges","; on the page those are the ",[49,212,213],{},"Track Record",[49,215,216],{},"Trading Privileges"," badges, green when confirmed and grey with a warning icon when not. The Complete Dashboard renders both inside the frame.",[14,219,221],{"id":220},"where-you-see-it-on-showmytrades","Where you see it on ShowMyTrades",[10,223,224,225,228,229,234,235,238,239,242],{},"The Widget Builder lives at ",[49,226,227],{},"Dashboard → Widgets"," when you are logged in, and at ",[160,230,232],{"href":231},"\u002Fwidgets",[69,233,231],{}," when you are not, where it works on any public account. The fastest route is the ",[49,236,237],{},"Embed widget"," button — the ",[69,240,241],{},"\u003C\u002F>"," icon on any public account page — which opens the builder on that account with the Equity Curve preselected. You pick format, type, a width in pixels or percent and a theme; the Equity Curve and Complete Dashboard add colour pickers and series switches for all five chart groups. Then copy the iframe HTML, or the HTML, Markdown and BBCode snippets on the image path.",[10,244,245],{},"Privacy carries into the embed. All seven Privacy Options in account settings — Open Trades, Closed Trades, Account Number, Lots, Trade Comments, Stop Loss \u002F Take Profit, Trade Notes — are passed to the Trade History widget, so a column hidden on your public page is hidden inside the frame as well.",[14,247,249],{"id":248},"common-misunderstandings","Common misunderstandings",[251,252,253,260,266,277],"ul",{},[254,255,256,259],"li",{},[49,257,258],{},"\"A widget is just a nicer screenshot.\""," The iframe refetches on every page load. Nothing about it is a stored copy.",[254,261,262,265],{},[49,263,264],{},"\"The image version can be edited like a screenshot.\""," The Dynamic Image is regenerated server-side from your data. The Static Image genuinely is frozen — which is what it is for, and why it belongs in slide decks rather than sales pages.",[254,267,268,271,272,276],{},[49,269,270],{},"\"I can embed a private account.\""," You cannot. Widgets serve published accounts only. ",[160,273,275],{"href":274},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-unlisted-account","Unlisted accounts"," work fine, since they are published, just hidden from discovery.",[254,278,279,282],{},[49,280,281],{},"\"The resize script is optional.\""," Remove it and the widget renders in a fixed box with a scrollbar inside. It is the most common broken embed.",[10,284,285,286,196],{},"Formats, sizes, placement and the five mistakes that ruin an embed are covered in ",[160,287,289],{"href":288},"\u002Fguides\u002Ftrading-widgets-and-embeds","the widget and embeds guide",{"title":291,"searchDepth":292,"depth":292,"links":293},"",2,[294,295,296,297,298],{"id":16,"depth":292,"text":17},{"id":154,"depth":292,"text":155},{"id":179,"depth":292,"text":180},{"id":220,"depth":292,"text":221},{"id":248,"depth":292,"text":249},"Platforms","2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z","A trading widget embeds a live broker-synced account inside another website. Three formats, seven interactive views, eleven image types, and no screenshots.",true,"md",{},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-widget",[307,308,309,310],"what-is-an-unlisted-account","what-is-a-verified-track-record","what-is-a-track-record","what-is-a-trading-portfolio",{"title":5,"description":301},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-widget","Trading Widget","Ku4JCEZgaT1VoKUnSrvHB6AKz_A-AUdETgTR4Ge4sVY",[316,609,795,979],{"id":317,"title":318,"body":319,"category":598,"date":300,"description":599,"draft":302,"extension":303,"meta":600,"navigation":302,"path":601,"related":602,"seo":606,"stem":607,"term":213,"updated":300,"__hash__":608},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-track-record.md","What Is a Track Record in Trading?",{"type":7,"value":320,"toc":591},[321,326,328,331,373,376,385,388,390,393,400,402,417,420,427,433,456,472,474,497,511,552,554,584],[10,322,323,324,196],{},"A track record is the documented history of a trading account: every closed trade, the equity path those trades produced, and the periods in between. It records what happened; it is not a claim about what will. This entry covers what a record must contain and how long it has to run before it means anything. Whether the data can be trusted at all is answered by a ",[160,325,206],{"href":205},[14,327,17],{"id":16},[10,329,330],{},"A record that carries evidence is trade-level, not summary-level. The minimum contents:",[251,332,333,339,350,356,362],{},[254,334,335,338],{},[49,336,337],{},"Every closed trade",", with open and close time, instrument, direction, volume, both prices and the result.",[254,340,341,344,345,349],{},[49,342,343],{},"The cost of each trade"," — ",[160,346,348],{"href":347},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-cost-percentage","commission and swap"," kept separate from gross profit — because a summary that nets them together hides where the money went.",[254,351,352,355],{},[49,353,354],{},"The equity path",", so the order of results is visible. A profit factor reads the same whether the losses came first or last; the curve does not.",[254,357,358,361],{},[49,359,360],{},"The gaps."," Months without trading are information, as are deposits and withdrawals, which change what a percentage means.",[254,363,364,367,368,372],{},[49,365,366],{},"The cost that cannot be shown",", acknowledged: the ",[160,369,371],{"href":370},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-spread","spread"," sits inside every fill price and appears in no field.",[10,374,375],{},"Length runs on two independent clocks, and they do not convert into each other.",[377,378,383],"pre",{"className":379,"code":381,"language":382},[380],"language-text","Trade count    -> how much evidence there is about the edge\nCalendar time  -> how many market conditions the edge has met\n","text",[69,384,381],{"__ignoreMap":291},[10,386,387],{},"A high-frequency system can print 500 trades in a month and still have seen one month of one market. A swing trader reaching 500 trades has lived through years. Read both clocks; the shorter one governs.",[14,389,155],{"id":154},[10,391,392],{},"A track record can prove a strategy loses money long before it can prove one makes money. Profits accumulate slowly and are easily produced by luck; the failure mode arrives all at once.",[10,394,395,396,399],{},"This is why ",[160,397,398],{"href":193},"maximum drawdown"," is the figure that ages worst. It can only grow. A record showing 4% is not a record of a low-risk strategy but of a strategy whose worst day has not happened yet, and every additional month can only enlarge that number or leave it alone.",[14,401,180],{"id":179},[10,403,404,405,408,409,412,413,416],{},"Across the published accounts on ShowMyTrades with trading history — drawn from 10,000+ connected accounts and ",[49,406,407],{},"15,436,464"," synchronised trades — the median account has ",[49,410,411],{},"171"," closed trades and a median trade length of ",[49,414,415],{},"2.4 hours",". These figures describe accounts published here, not traders in general.",[10,418,419],{},"Read those together. At 2.4 hours per position, 171 trades is not years of history; for an active system it can be weeks of calendar time. The median public record is thin on both clocks at once, which is the normal condition of a track record rather than an unusual one.",[10,421,422],{},[423,424],"img",{"alt":425,"src":426},"Three months is a sample, six a hint, twelve an argument, twenty-four months a track record; the median account here holds 171 closed trades of 2.4 hours each","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fsample-size.svg",[10,428,429],{},[430,431,432],"em",{},"Count the trades, not the calendar, and let the shorter clock govern.",[10,434,435,436,439,440,443,444,447,448,451,452,455],{},"The consequence shows in the risk figures. Median deepest drawdown is ",[49,437,438],{},"9.7%",", yet ",[49,441,442],{},"38.2%"," of accounts have been more than 20% below their peak and ",[49,445,446],{},"17.6%"," more than 50%. Median time-weighted return is ",[49,449,450],{},"+3.2%",", with ",[49,453,454],{},"63.0%"," positive. Those tails belong to the longer records; short ones have not had the chance to produce them.",[10,457,458,459,462,463,466,467,471],{},"One pair is worth reading side by side: median win rate ",[49,460,461],{},"68.8%",", median profit factor ",[49,464,465],{},"1.28",". ",[160,468,470],{"href":469},"\u002Fguides\u002Fwin-rate-is-not-an-edge","Most published accounts win most of their trades and still clear almost nothing"," — what a record measures and a headline never does.",[14,473,221],{"id":220},[10,475,476,477,480,481,484,485,488,489,492,493,496],{},"The account page is the track record. The trade clock sits in the ",[49,478,479],{},"Advanced Statistics"," module as ",[49,482,483],{},"Total Trades",", beside ",[49,486,487],{},"Avg. Trade Length","; multiply the two and you have the time the account actually spent holding positions. The calendar clock is read from the ",[49,490,491],{},"Monthly Returns"," table, which shows the record month by month with empty cells left empty, so a pause in trading stays visible instead of being averaged away; its ",[49,494,495],{},"Calendar"," view drills into a single month day by day.",[10,498,499,500,503,504,133,507,510],{},"The information icon beside ",[49,501,502],{},"Account Stats"," shows ",[49,505,506],{},"Created",[49,508,509],{},"Public views",". Created is the date the account was connected to ShowMyTrades, not the date its trading began — imported broker history routinely starts years earlier, so take the span from the monthly table rather than from that date.",[10,512,513,514,517,518,521,522,105,525,133,528,531,532,535,536,105,539,105,542,105,545,133,548,551],{},"Trade-level detail sits in the ",[49,515,516],{},"Trade History & Balance Progression"," table, one row per position, with ",[49,519,520],{},"Net P\u002FL"," always shown and ",[49,523,524],{},"Profit (Gross)",[49,526,527],{},"Swap",[49,529,530],{},"Commission"," available as separate columns from the ",[49,533,534],{},"Display"," menu. The charts panel switches between ",[49,537,538],{},"Growth",[49,540,541],{},"Balance",[49,543,544],{},"Profit",[49,546,547],{},"Growth by Trade",[49,549,550],{},"Drawdown","; Growth by Trade replaces the calendar clock with the trade clock on the same data. Owners can hide individual modules from the public view.",[14,553,249],{"id":248},[251,555,556,562,568,578],{},[254,557,558,561],{},[49,559,560],{},"\"It has been running two years, so it is a long record.\""," Two years of nine trades is nine samples. Check the trade count before the start date.",[254,563,564,567],{},[49,565,566],{},"\"A track record proves the strategy works.\""," It documents an outcome. Whether that outcome is edge or luck is a sample-size question, and most records are too short to answer it.",[254,569,570,573,574,577],{},[49,571,572],{},"\"Published means verified.\""," They are different properties. A record can be complete, detailed and ",[160,575,576],{"href":162},"entirely fabricated","; provenance is what the certification badges address.",[254,579,580,583],{},[49,581,582],{},"\"The drawdown figure is settled.\""," It is a running maximum. It never falls, and on a young account it mostly describes what has not happened yet.",[10,585,586,587,196],{},"For the arithmetic of sample size and the minimums worth applying: ",[160,588,590],{"href":589},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-much-history-a-track-record-needs","how long before a track record means anything",{"title":291,"searchDepth":292,"depth":292,"links":592},[593,594,595,596,597],{"id":16,"depth":292,"text":17},{"id":154,"depth":292,"text":155},{"id":179,"depth":292,"text":180},{"id":220,"depth":292,"text":221},{"id":248,"depth":292,"text":249},"Verification","A track record is the documented history of a trading account. What it must contain, how long it has to run to carry evidence, and what real accounts show.",{},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-track-record",[308,603,604,605],"what-is-maximum-drawdown","what-is-a-profit-factor","what-is-cost-percentage",{"title":318,"description":599},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-track-record","K1aCBd9ixIw5BopJGReJHccEjG4V66m99Stl3sOBbKM",{"id":610,"title":611,"body":612,"category":784,"date":300,"description":785,"draft":302,"extension":303,"meta":786,"navigation":302,"path":787,"related":788,"seo":791,"stem":792,"term":793,"updated":300,"__hash__":794},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-portfolio.md","What Is a Trading Portfolio? Accounts as One Curve",{"type":7,"value":613,"toc":777},[614,617,619,622,628,640,652,654,657,665,667,681,699,701,719,733,739,741,770],[10,615,616],{},"A trading portfolio is a set of connected accounts merged into a single equity curve, with every statistic recomputed on that curve as though it had always been one account. It is not a summary screen sitting on top of several accounts; it is one account rebuilt from all of their trades.",[14,618,17],{"id":16},[10,620,621],{},"The distinction that matters is between combining the results and combining the data.",[377,623,626],{"className":624,"code":625,"language":382},[380],"Wrong:  portfolio return = (R₁ + R₂ + R₃) \u002F 3\n\nRight:  merge every closed trade and every daily equity point\n        into one curve, then compute TWR, drawdown and the\n        ratios on that curve\n",[69,627,625],{"__ignoreMap":291},[10,629,630,631,635,636,639],{},"The merge happens server-side, and its rules explain most of the surprises. Trades from every selected account are pooled and sorted by close time. Daily balance and equity are summed date by date, and an account that reported nothing that day contributes its last known value, not a zero. Gain is a ",[160,632,634],{"href":633},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-time-weighted-return","time-weighted return"," recomputed on the merged curve, never an average of members. Drawdown is recomputed there too, as equity against the running peak of merged balance. Broker, currency and account name resolve to the shared value when every member agrees, and to ",[49,637,638],{},"Mixed"," when they do not.",[10,641,642,643,646,647,651],{},"Between 1 and 50 accounts go into a portfolio, and a user can hold up to 30; MT4, MT5, cTrader and TradeLocker can mix freely. Currencies are ",[49,644,645],{},"not"," converted: balance, equity and profit are summed as the brokers report them, so a EUR account beside a USD one gives a total that is not money in any currency. ",[160,648,650],{"href":649},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-cent-account","Cent accounts"," are worse — USC is normalised to USD for the label, so the portfolio will not even mark itself Mixed while reporting totals a hundred times too large.",[14,653,155],{"id":154},[10,655,656],{},"Because the three intuitive ways to combine accounts are all wrong. Summing balances rewards you for moving your own money around. Averaging percentages lets +40% on a $500 account cancel −5% on a $50,000 one, when the money says roughly −4.6%. Quoting the best account is survivorship bias applied to yourself.",[10,658,659,660,664],{},"The merged curve also answers what the individual pages cannot: whether the second account diversified anything. A combined drawdown in percent cannot be worse than your deepest single account — a blend cannot fall further than its worst component. Where it lands under that ceiling is decided by ",[160,661,663],{"href":662},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-correlation-risk","correlation"," and little else. Correlated accounts land beside the worst one, and in cash the loss is the sum of all of them.",[14,666,180],{"id":179},[10,668,669,670,133,673,676,677,680],{},"Running several accounts is the normal case on ShowMyTrades: ",[49,671,672],{},"699 users have more than one account",[49,674,675],{},"429 of those hold accounts at more than one broker",". Yet only ",[49,678,679],{},"182 portfolios"," exist platform-wide (August 2026) — a fraction of the people the feature was built for.",[10,682,683,684,133,687,690,691,695,696,698],{},"Correlation is the default, because the accounts are usually automated: across the published accounts with history the ",[49,685,686],{},"median autotrading share is 99%",[49,688,689],{},"53.9% are more than 90% automated",". The same ",[160,692,694],{"href":693},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-expert-advisor","EA"," on three accounts is one strategy with three sets of costs. For scale, median deepest drawdown is ",[49,697,438],{}," and 38.2% of accounts have been more than 20% underwater.",[14,700,221],{"id":220},[10,702,703,704,707,708,711,712,715,716,196],{},"Portfolios live under ",[49,705,706],{},"Dashboard → Portfolios",", built by naming one and ticking accounts from a checkbox list. The page reuses the account layout — stats panel, charts viewer, Monthly Returns, Advanced Statistics, currency pair breakdown, trades table — every figure computed on the merged data. Publishing one produces a public page on the same ",[69,709,710],{},"\u002Faccount\u002F"," path, under a slug generated from the name and prefixed ",[69,713,714],{},"ptf-"," — fixed once created, where an account slug can be edited. Visibility offers the same three states as an account: private, published or ",[160,717,718],{"href":274},"unlisted",[10,720,721,722,728,729,732],{},"One control exists only here: ",[160,723,725],{"href":724},"\u002Fguides\u002Fcustom-analysis-and-filter-presets",[49,726,727],{},"Custom Analysis"," gains an ",[49,730,731],{},"Accounts"," section, one chip per member labelled with the short account ID. Deselect one and every statistic recomputes without it, answering \"what does this look like without the martingale account\" in a click.",[10,734,735,736,738],{},"Two things do not carry over. A ",[160,737,206],{"href":205}," is not shown: it belongs to a single account and its investor password, and the portfolio record does not store the field at all. Terminal Info is requested but the backend has no aggregate to return, so the section stays empty — ping, build and autotrading state stay on the individual account pages.",[14,740,249],{"id":248},[251,742,743,749,755,761],{},[254,744,745,748],{},[49,746,747],{},"\"My portfolio gain should match the average of my accounts.\""," It should not. It is one time-weighted return on one curve, so a large account dominates and a small account with a spectacular percentage barely registers.",[254,750,751,754],{},[49,752,753],{},"\"Adding accounts reduces drawdown.\""," Only if their troughs fall on different dates. Compare dates on each account's drawdown chart, not depths.",[254,756,757,760],{},[49,758,759],{},"\"Shifting money between my own accounts distorts it.\""," Gain will not move: time-weighted return treats a transfer as a balance change, not a return. If both accounts sit in the same portfolio, one side's withdrawal offsets the other's deposit in the merged balance too.",[254,762,763,766,767,769],{},[49,764,765],{},"\"A dead account in the portfolio is harmless.\""," Its last equity is carried forward as a flat line, which dilutes the return and softens the ",[160,768,123],{"href":193}," percentage. Reconnect it or remove it.",[10,771,772,773,196],{},"The build flow, the correlation test and the five ways people flatter themselves are in ",[160,774,776],{"href":775},"\u002Fguides\u002Ftracking-multiple-accounts-portfolio","the multi-account portfolio guide",{"title":291,"searchDepth":292,"depth":292,"links":778},[779,780,781,782,783],{"id":16,"depth":292,"text":17},{"id":154,"depth":292,"text":155},{"id":179,"depth":292,"text":180},{"id":220,"depth":292,"text":221},{"id":248,"depth":292,"text":249},"Metrics","A portfolio merges several trading accounts into one equity curve, so gain and drawdown are recomputed on the whole thing instead of averaged across accounts.",{},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-portfolio",[789,790,603,307],"what-is-time-weighted-return","what-is-correlation-risk",{"title":611,"description":785},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-portfolio","Trading Portfolio","Zv3ZB8Usns1vud6prYE4fy7T7XX2Hlb8SPJXWTRXpK4",{"id":796,"title":797,"body":798,"category":598,"date":300,"description":968,"draft":969,"extension":303,"meta":970,"navigation":302,"path":205,"related":971,"seo":975,"stem":976,"term":977,"updated":300,"__hash__":978},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record.md","What Is a Verified Track Record? Definition and Checks",{"type":7,"value":799,"toc":961},[800,803,805,827,833,836,842,847,849,861,864,866,876,888,890,910,921,923,954],[10,801,802],{},"A verified track record is a record of trading results that arrives directly from the broker through a read-only connection, continuously, with no step in the chain where the publisher can edit, delete or re-order anything. It is the difference between a claim and evidence. Two separate questions hide inside the phrase, and most arguments about verification come from confusing them.",[14,804,17],{"id":16},[10,806,807,808,105,812,816,817,821,822,826],{},"The first question is whether the data is real. That is answered by the connection itself: a channel that can read the account but never write to it, running without interruption, so the record is built continuously rather than exported at a convenient moment. On ShowMyTrades that channel is one of four — an Expert Advisor installed in MetaTrader 4 or 5, a direct connection using the ",[160,809,811],{"href":810},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password","MT4 investor password",[160,813,815],{"href":814},"\u002Fctrader-account-tracking","cTrader OAuth2 authorisation",", or the ",[160,818,820],{"href":819},"\u002Ftradelocker-tracking","TradeLocker REST API",". None of them can place, modify or close an order. Read-only credentials are the industry mechanism for this, and third-party trackers such as ",[160,823,825],{"href":824},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-myfxbook","Myfxbook"," connect MetaTrader accounts the same way.",[377,828,831],{"className":829,"code":830,"language":382},[380],"broker server → read-only connection → ShowMyTrades → public page\n                no editable step anywhere in the chain\n",[69,832,830],{"__ignoreMap":291},[10,834,835],{},"The second question is whether the person publishing the page owns the account. A read-only feed proves the trades exist; it does not prove whose they are, because an investor password can be handed to anyone. Closing that gap requires an action only someone with trading rights can perform: placing a pending order at an unreachable price with the publisher's user ID in the comment field. On cTrader, one OAuth authorisation answers both questions at once.",[10,837,838],{},[423,839],{"alt":840,"src":841},"Track Record Verified answers whether the data arrived from the broker through a channel that cannot place, modify or close an order; Trading Privileges Verified answers whether the publisher controls the account","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Ftwo-badges.svg",[10,843,844],{},[430,845,846],{},"A record can pass one and fail the other, which is why they are counted separately.",[14,848,155],{"id":154},[10,850,851,852,855,856,860],{},"Everything downstream of the connection is arithmetic. If the inputs can be edited, the profit factor, the ",[160,853,123],{"href":854},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-drawdown"," and the ",[160,857,859],{"href":858},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-equity-curve","equity curve"," are all decoration, no matter how detailed the page looks. A screenshot, a PDF statement and a spreadsheet share the same defect: they are produced by the person asking you to trust them.",[10,862,863],{},"Continuity matters as much as read-only access. A record that can be paused and resumed lets a bad month disappear. When the feed is continuous, an interruption is itself visible on the page — which is information, not an absence of it.",[14,865,180],{"id":179},[10,867,868,869,133,872,875],{},"Verification is opt-in and requires effort, and the numbers reflect that. Across the 10,000+ accounts published on ShowMyTrades (August 2026), only ",[49,870,871],{},"65 carry Track Record Verified",[49,873,874],{},"264 carry Trading Privileges Verified",". More accounts prove ownership than prove data provenance, because placing one pending order is easier than changing a password at the broker.",[10,877,878,879,881,882,884,885,887],{},"Verified does not mean good. Across the public accounts with trading history, median ",[160,880,634],{"href":633}," is ",[49,883,450],{},", 63.0% are positive, and the median deepest drawdown is ",[49,886,438],{}," — with 17.6% of accounts having lost more than half their peak value at some point. That distribution, built from 15,436,464 synchronised trades, is what an honest record looks like, and it is nothing like the ones used in advertising.",[14,889,221],{"id":220},[10,891,892,893,896,897,133,899,901,902,905,906,909],{},"Both badges sit in the ",[49,894,895],{},"Certifications"," group in the header of every account page, above the numbers: ",[49,898,213],{},[49,900,216],{},", green when granted and grey when not, each with a tooltip explaining what it certifies for that platform. The same group also shows ",[49,903,904],{},"Real Account"," or ",[49,907,908],{},"Demo Account",", derived from the broker server rather than self-declared.",[10,911,912,913,916,917,920],{},"Verification is managed in the account settings, where the ",[49,914,915],{},"Investor Password (Optional)"," field lives — clear it and the Track Record badge turns grey on the same save. Both badges are also rendered inside the ",[49,918,919],{},"Complete Dashboard"," widget, which embeds the account header, so an embed on someone else's site carries its own provenance.",[14,922,249],{"id":248},[251,924,925,936,942,948],{},[254,926,927,930,931,935],{},[49,928,929],{},"A link to a tracking site is not verification."," ",[160,932,934],{"href":933},"\u002Fguides\u002Fthird-party-verification-explained","Any platform can host an unverified account",". Look for the badge on the page, not for the domain in the URL.",[254,937,938,941],{},[49,939,940],{},"Track Record Verified does not prove ownership."," It proves the trades are real. Someone reselling another trader's investor password can produce a genuine feed of trades that are not theirs.",[254,943,944,947],{},[49,945,946],{},"Verified is not the same as profitable."," The badge certifies provenance and nothing else. Read gain and drawdown together afterwards.",[254,949,950,953],{},[49,951,952],{},"A verified demo account is still a demo account."," Demo fills are optimistic in exactly the conditions where live fills hurt.",[10,955,956,957,196],{},"The procedure for both badges, step by step: ",[160,958,960],{"href":959},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-to-verify-your-account","how to verify your trading account",{"title":291,"searchDepth":292,"depth":292,"links":962},[963,964,965,966,967],{"id":16,"depth":292,"text":17},{"id":154,"depth":292,"text":155},{"id":179,"depth":292,"text":180},{"id":220,"depth":292,"text":221},{"id":248,"depth":292,"text":249},"A verified track record is performance data pulled straight from the broker through a read-only link, continuously, with nothing the publisher can edit.",false,{},[972,973,974],"what-is-an-mt4-investor-password","what-is-myfxbook","what-is-drawdown",{"title":797,"description":968},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record","Verified Track Record","im3JV0qh8wz_ZbgStl23aUhUUL79OEa_VDXyYyMF254",{"id":980,"title":981,"body":982,"category":598,"date":300,"description":1149,"draft":302,"extension":303,"meta":1150,"navigation":302,"path":274,"related":1151,"seo":1154,"stem":1155,"term":1156,"updated":300,"__hash__":1157},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-unlisted-account.md","What Is an Unlisted Account? Link-Only Records",{"type":7,"value":983,"toc":1142},[984,987,989,996,1003,1023,1026,1036,1038,1051,1060,1063,1065,1072,1074,1095,1105,1107,1136],[10,985,986],{},"An unlisted account is a published ShowMyTrades account that has been removed from every listing on the platform: the page renders in full for anyone holding the URL, but nothing on the site points to it. It sits between private, where nobody but the owner can load the page at all, and published, where the page is both readable and discoverable.",[14,988,17],{"id":16},[10,990,991,992,995],{},"Unlisted is not a separate kind of page, and not a separate value in the visibility field. Internally the account stays ",[69,993,994],{},"published"," and carries a boolean link-only flag, which is why the page, the statistics, the widgets, the followers and the slug all behave exactly as they did before the switch — no public endpoint had to change to support it. Only listings change.",[10,997,998,999,1002],{},"Three public listings filter unlisted entities out, each by the same ",[69,1000,1001],{},"unlisted = false"," condition on its query:",[251,1004,1005,1011,1017],{},[254,1006,1007,1010],{},[49,1008,1009],{},"Your public trader profile",", which is the same endpoint that fills the \"other accounts by this trader\" suggestions at the foot of every account page.",[254,1012,1013,1016],{},[49,1014,1015],{},"The Explore feed",", and the community counters that sit on it.",[254,1018,1019,1022],{},[49,1020,1021],{},"The public account search"," used by the Widget Builder, so nobody can find the account by name or ID and embed it.",[10,1024,1025],{},"Two more places exclude them by choice rather than by listing logic: the referral page will not offer an unlisted account as the link you share publicly, and the AI analysis job filters them out, so no new analysis is generated. Analyses produced before the switch stay on the page.",[10,1027,1028,1029,1032,1033,196],{},"Everything else is untouched. The account page loads for anyone with the address, the widget endpoints serve it, the ",[160,1030,1031],{"href":305},"widgets"," you already embedded keep rendering, and a custom slug change still leaves a 301 redirect behind. The same option and the same semantics apply to ",[160,1034,1035],{"href":787},"portfolios",[14,1037,155],{"id":154},[10,1039,1040,1041,1045,1046,1050],{},"Because \"show one person\" and \"publish to the world\" are different requests, and most platforms only offer the second. An unlisted page is the version you send to ",[160,1042,1044],{"href":1043},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-prop-firm","a prop firm"," reviewing your application, to an investor doing due diligence, or to one client of the twenty you track — without that account joining your public profile, ",[160,1047,1049],{"href":1048},"\u002Fguides\u002Ffinding-real-trading-accounts","appearing in the community feed",", or turning up in a widget somebody else builds.",[10,1052,1053,1054,1056,1057,1059],{},"Be precise about what it does not do. It is ",[49,1055,645],{}," private: anyone holding the link sees the whole page, trades included. It carries no ",[69,1058,150],{}," tag and stays in the sitemap, which is a deliberate decision rather than an oversight — an unlisted page that Google indexes is an accepted outcome. Followers who followed the account before the switch keep seeing it under Following, because they already have the link. Platform counters keep counting it as published. And the owner does not see their own unlisted accounts on their own public profile; they are managed from the private dashboard.",[10,1061,1062],{},"If a page must not be readable by a stranger who guesses or is forwarded the URL, the correct setting is private, not unlisted.",[14,1064,180],{"id":179},[10,1066,1067,1068,1071],{},"Of the 10,000+ accounts published on ShowMyTrades, ",[49,1069,1070],{},"37 are unlisted"," (August 2026). It is a deliberately narrow tool used by a small number of owners, and the shape of that usage matches the design: people who track many accounts and want to hand out one of them.",[14,1073,221],{"id":220},[10,1075,1076,1077,1080,1081,105,1084,133,1087,1090,1091,1094],{},"In ",[49,1078,1079],{},"Account Settings → General → Visibility"," the dropdown holds exactly three entries, each prefixed with a small icon: ",[49,1082,1083],{},"Private - Only you can view",[49,1085,1086],{},"Published - Visible to others",[49,1088,1089],{},"Unlisted - Only via direct link",". On the dashboard page for that account an amber ",[49,1092,1093],{},"Unlisted"," badge sits next to the copy-link and open-page buttons. In the dashboard Accounts and Portfolios tables it is a third state in the Status column, in amber, with a matching entry in the Status filter. The admin panel's Visibility column distinguishes it too, though its filter does not yet offer it as a choice.",[10,1096,1097,1098,133,1101,1104],{},"One behaviour worth knowing: the bulk ",[49,1099,1100],{},"Publish",[49,1102,1103],{},"Hide"," actions in those tables always clear the flag. Publishing something is meant to make it genuinely public, and hiding it is not meant to leave a link-only flag armed for the next time it is published.",[14,1106,249],{"id":248},[251,1108,1109,1115,1124,1130],{},[254,1110,1111,1114],{},[49,1112,1113],{},"\"Unlisted means private with a link.\""," It means published, minus discovery. The page is fully public to anyone who has the address.",[254,1116,1117,1120,1121,1123],{},[49,1118,1119],{},"\"Search engines will not find it.\""," They can. There is no ",[69,1122,150],{},", and the page stays in the sitemap.",[254,1125,1126,1129],{},[49,1127,1128],{},"\"Making an account unlisted breaks my embeds.\""," It does not. Widgets serve published accounts, and unlisted accounts are published. Setting the account to private is what breaks them.",[254,1131,1132,1135],{},[49,1133,1134],{},"\"Nobody can see it any more.\""," Existing followers still can, and so can anyone the link was forwarded to.",[10,1137,1138,1139,196],{},"For how visibility, slugs and the public profile fit together, see ",[160,1140,1141],{"href":174},"the public profile and custom slugs guide",{"title":291,"searchDepth":292,"depth":292,"links":1143},[1144,1145,1146,1147,1148],{"id":16,"depth":292,"text":17},{"id":154,"depth":292,"text":155},{"id":179,"depth":292,"text":180},{"id":220,"depth":292,"text":221},{"id":248,"depth":292,"text":249},"Unlisted is a third visibility state: the account page works for anyone holding the link, but it is absent from Explore, search and your public profile.",{},[1152,308,310,1153],"what-is-a-trading-widget","what-is-a-prop-firm",{"title":981,"description":1149},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-unlisted-account","Unlisted Account","FVRTTzXCzFmko9mbcQK10j8smAzQsA1wr0gslNmswe0",1787415695682]